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Bright and breezy this morning, and the cows have been moved. Win, win.

Well there’s a rarity, a dry dog walk on a Tuesday morning! Sun was out but it’s cold in the wind!

Well another thoroughly unpleasant morning. Gale force winds, yet more rain that we dont need, and 7c. Stove has been relit. Yesterdays bike ride was curtailed to 4 miles because of the wind, climbing up out of the village it was too wild to ride safely. Looks like the same today.

We seem to have missed the worst of the weather yesterday evening, still bits and pieces of rain in a gusty wind but nothing like further north and east in the Region. A better start today (not saying much), although we had a light shower an hour ago and still partly cloudy. Hopefully the forecast improvement will continue.

cheese the bbc like to suppress the british spirit Was showing dry all week for me until sunday

MattStoke yes biddie it was lovely yesterday and was hoping it would be nice today but the rains have returned and cold, wet again i truly have had enough of this country right now

UK Severe Convective & Storm Forecast - Issued 2024-04-16 07:15:52 Valid: 16/04/2024 0600 - 17/04/2024 0600 THUNDERSTORM WATCH - TUES 16 APRIL 2024 Click here for the full forecast

It's DRY for now. Blue sky earlier with tangerine coloured clouds. 7°C and those strong gusts have abated.

@*Stormforce~beka* quick, time to be outside, a decent school run this morning with wall to wall blue sky..

@MP-R not sure I recall a Severn Estuary streamer forming and moving SSE!? Developing between Thornbury/Portishead since about 06.00 .

Looks like yet another bust, were any tornado warnings issued at all?

Far too cold. It was better than this April sunshine-wise of course. But April should have only occasional frosts- not virtually every night.

Rain Lady aye it doesn’t matter which side of the GW debate you sit on, the conditions since early summer last year have been abysmal and we will all likely feel the effects in terms of substandard foods at higher prices. if this turns out to have been a freak event and conditions settle down into a lengthy period of good weather then some sort of normality will return and GW will suddenly become a positive thing but months of continuing wet weather has certainly played havoc with all aspects of life and I really feel for anyone trying to make a living in these conditions. Thankfully the dire conditions of yesterday should improve into something drier over the next few days with that rarest of beast, a high pressure system looking to set up shop around this part of the world but to me it looks like a drier but largely cloudy affair and, given the need for sunshine at this time of year, suppressed temperatures. I certainly cannot see us reaching for the sun cream and dusting the BBQ off anytime soon.

A drty welcome to the day patchy cloud and rather mild Temp 6.2C, Barometer 1007mb rising slowly, Wind F2 WNW, Rainfall since midnight Nil

April 2021 would have made a good March.

I very much remember it, as my wife and I were both out of work at the time thanks to Covid, and we have a south-facing balcony - so April 2021 in the daytime was fantastic, with the sun low enough in the sky to fully illuminate the covered balcony. However, we made the mistake of heading for our first post-lockdown pint one afternoon, and sat outside a hastily rearranged BrewDog, basking in the sun in t-shirts and jeans. But the second the sun even went behind a building at ~6pm we had to run back home, so sudden was the temperature drop. I also remember snow/graupel showers in London

Saw this rainbow captured on the A42 just as it merges into the M1 on the March 2023 imagery.

Scorcher Met Office site has just added showers for all afternoon tuesday and wednesday now!!! Lmao.... I hope it's wrong.

Don records like dream catch me by Newton faulkner came out that year. It didn’t matter if august was cool as long as it gave a feel good factor which it did and many people had good night sleeps too which made august 2007 ideal really.

Did anybody else really enjoy April 2021. It was very cold (CET 6.5) with many air frosts but also very sunny. My overriding memory of this month is being able to socialise outdoors in gardens and beer gardens again after Lockdown, which was fine in the sunny daytime but felt absolutely freezing sat outside at night! We had snow showers in the second weekend too. A much more enjoyable month than the mild wet dross we’re currently experiencing.

2013 was indeed a good summer - July was phenomenal and August was decent. June was a bit poor but otherwise I would take a repeat of 2013.

Thunders yes mammatusss

raz.org.rain Sun Chaser 2013 turning up would seem to back up the "poor early year, much better summer" relationship, as July 2013 is the fourth hottest on record (above 2022 and 1976!) being only just edged out by 1983 and got the highest temperature since 2006 at the time. June was a bit naff but I wouldn't say it belongs with the infamous Junes of our history, it was dry and mostly average with sunshine. August thru early September is decently passable, being dry aside from the odd thunderstorm and a bit of a nothingburger otherwise, so nothing disruptive to summer plans. The September heatwave had good timing, right before the kids went back to school so one last beach trip etc.. July 2013 was off the back of the 2007-2013 aberration though, presumably such a repeat would see considerably higher temps for longer now and in the leagues of the classics like 1995 or 2006. Indeed the June-July 2013 period reads a lot like 2006 so one has to assume 2013 was an attempt at that and it did very well with what it had in the end. As for concerns about "it's too early for another big heatwave etc.", 1975/1976, 1989/1990, 1994 if you want to count it/1995 and 2018/2019/2020 were all consecutive so there is no minimum time limit between years with big heatwaves. Wet soil also isn't a concern as many of these had infamously wet and miserable starts to the year like this one, and they all managed to get rid of it once the Sun came out for an extended period, 2020 perhaps being the most notable of these when we started with extreme wet and a prolonged dry and warm spell over April and May was able to completely turn it around and leave the ground desperately dry within the space of two months. If the weather really wants us to have a big heatwave then we'll get one.

Greyhound81 20c is likely in both April and October here. April generally slightly warmer for the warmest day of the month, but they both average 2-3 days above 20c.